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Add a vacation mode
I want to be "off the grid" for a few days. But if I don't enter data, I'll fall off the road! I would like a way to tell the minder that it should not judge me for n days. Then I can enter in what I did during that time.
It's not that I don't plan on meeting the goal, I just won't get a chance to enter data!
61 votesWe now have the scheduled breaks feature, which isn’t quite what Eric has in mind here, but combined with Retroratchet you can pretty much do this now. We have something even better in mind that will hopefully make all this moot, but it’s still half baked.
PS: I’m not entirely sure these uservoice status update emails are working the way we want them to. Could you reply if you’re seeing this, just so we can get a sense?
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Consistently order the graphs
Every time I load my page, the graphs are ordered differently. This means I have to hunt to find the right one - small inconvenience, but irritating nevertheless.
0 votesGraphs are ordered by urgency now, which you can tweak with the panic threshold setting.
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Let us delete goals
[UPDATE: This is all now totally different from what's described here; you should probably ignore this whole suggestion. In particular there's nothing that happens if you delete all your datapoints, and archived goals are viewable, just not in your main gallery.]
Currently you only get the option to delete a goal if you first delete [no, not true! we told you to ignore all this!] every data point, which is obviously too tedious.
We need to address that better but here's what's holding us back, in case people have thoughts on it:
It's sort of against the spirit of a…
76 votesThis could use work but I think it’s best to mark this completed so people can have their votes back. If you still want, say, true deletion, or improvements to archiving (like being able to actually see your archived goals!) we’ll let you add those as separate suggestions.
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Provide a Mac dashboard widget to show your graph so you can keep a better eye on your progress
(We, the cofounders, actually have an ugly version of this, so thought we'd offer to clean it up and make it available if there's demand for it.)
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Allow us to order the goals by size of buffer
Personally I'd find it very useful to be able to scan through all my goals in the order of how close I am to losing; so I can make sure to put effort into those ones which are most urgent.
It doesn't take too long to check through, so I wouldn't consider this urgent, but it would be a handy feature.
6 votesThis is how the gallery is sorted now, and you can customize it slightly by changing the panic threshold for goals. (The gallery is sorted by how imminent the panic thresholds are.)
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Provide a key for what the lines on the graph mean.
There is a red line and a grey line and it is not clear what they denote.
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let the tagtime users define which side of the YBR is the good one.
It should be an option at goal-creation time.
14 votesThe current way to set up a TagTime goal is to create it as a Custom goal.
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Put graphs not in use on a separate page
It feels cluttered and information overloady to have all my goals, including the ones I'm not tracking anymore, all on one page. Can we shunt off the inactive ones to an archive or vault so I don't have to look at my shameful past anymore?
11 votesUPDATE: This is now done!
https://twitter.com/beemuvi/status/144890706647982080Yeah, something like this is needed. I do it for my own goals using my god-like admin powers so clearly we should provide similar functionality for users!
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Let me define my own official end of the day
Currently your graph refreshes at or soon after 3am in the time zone you specify in My Account.
Some people want their day to officially end at, say, 4am, or some upper bound on when they might go to bed. So a graph refresh at 3am might be premature. (This only would matter if it's an "emergency" day where you're in the red and about to be officially off your yellow brick road at the end of the day.)
Other people want the opposite. To quote one user:
one problem I've had is I often leave my tasks to the…
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Make a Beeminder iphone app
Pay no attention to this other idea: https://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/suggestions/2298834-make-an-android-app
136 votesUPDATE: http://blog.beeminder.com/apps
The Android app is further along but iPhone is now under way too! In case you have an Android device to see where we’re headed, here’s the current android version: http://dreev.es/ba
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Make a Beeminder Android app
Pay no attention to this other idea: https://beeminder.uservoice.com/forums/3011-general/suggestions/2298841-make-a-beeminder-iphone-app
96 votesOne known bug so far: if you change your rate units in advanced settings to something other than “weekly” then the road dial in the Android app won’t work right.
Please let us know of others!
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Turn off bot reminders but still get warnings for "emergency" days
The bot reminders now include the number of safety buffer days (number of days you can do nothing and still be on your yellow brick road) and say when it's an "emergency" day (will be officially off the road if you don't do something by midnight), which is great. But it might be nice to be able to choose to have the warnings even if you don't otherwise want the reminders.
65 votesOk, so this could still be improved, but now if you uncheck all the days of the week (“which days can beeminder remind me on”), and leave either text or email reminders on, then you’ll get reminders only when you are orange or red.
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Let me enter data retroactively even after an "emergency" day
Currently an "emergency day" -- when your graph is red -- means that you have to enter new data by the end of the day or you lose (ie, you're officially off the road, and you get charged if you had money at risk).
But what if I actually did the workout or whatever I was beeminding by the end of the day and just didn't have a chance to enter it?
The current answer is to just not let that happen. It's normally fine to wait till the next day to enter data for the previous day (or any…
52 votes[UPDATE: I’m marking this completed now since we like the current compromise of being able to enter data retroactively but still having to reply to the legit check. And we do have the 24-hour window before the charge actually goes through, which is usually plenty of time to cry foul if the derailment wasn’t legit.]
We’re actually finding it works surprisingly well to have a bit of human intervention when you derail. We can easily grow 10x before we have to automate this for our own sanity. And it seems to be an amazing deterrent to weaseling/cheating when you have to explain yourself to actual humans to get your graph unfrozen.
We’re still inclined to try the slightly kinder/gentler version but it has fallen down the priority list a bit, given how well the more human-moderated version is working.
More thoughts on this welcomed!
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RetroRatchet!
Building up a safety buffer can be great but sometimes you have too much safety buffer and your yellow brick road becomes pretty toothless for a while. Especially if you had the steepness set too conservatively at first.
So let's have a feature where, when a flash of willpower strikes, you can make your road harder immediately and wipe out the safety buffer. (It's still important to have the one-week delay on making the road easier, for the reasons discussed at http://blog.beeminder.com/dial )
One way to do this is a RetroRatchet button that makes the yellow brick road retroactively…
212 votesRetroRatchet is here! We’re now working on a version where you can choose how much to ratchet. This version is fully hardcore, making the road leap to wherever your datapoint is today.
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Have an option for sharing graphs without the numbers visible
-- i.e., if I want someone to be able to see my slope and whether I'm still on the road, but not my actual weight or whatever other number it is.
9 votesFinally did this, thanks to @chipmanaged! It’s in advanced settings (and available, though undocumented, in the API as “hidey”).
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55 votes
Woo hoo! http://blog.beeminder.com/api (thanks Reto Stamm for the reeminder to close this!)
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Let me choose how much to put at risk (Less "trying", more committing)
It's currently free to start on a yellow brick road. If you go off you have to put $5 at risk to reset and try again. If you go off again then you have to put $10 at risk to try a third time. Then $30, then $90, etc.
Details at http://beeminder.com/money
But if you know from the start that 5 or 10 dollars isn't going to be very motivating, you should be able to jump straight to something that is.
This is one way in which stickK.com currently beats Beeminder: If you're gung ho to force yourself to shape…
6 votesYou can now commit anytime (i.e. without first losing) and jump up to a higher level on the fee schedule if you so choose. The fee schedule still sets the lower bound on how much you must commit if you drive off your road.
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Let me see my original graph even after I reset
I know the old data itself is still accessible but not the graph.
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Let us pick our own start date
The one week delay before the ramp up begins is unnecessarily confusing, especially because the Beeminder bot still bugs me during that week.
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